Summer 2022 | Undergraduate Courses
Session I (May 23 - June 18)
ENGL 3570 - Black Superheroes
1030-1245 (Bryan 310)
Lisa Woolfork
Graduate Course Descriptions | Fall 2022
Creative Writing
ENCW 7310-001 - MFA Poetry Workshop
Brian Teare
Restricted to Instructor Permission.
ENCW 7610-001 - MFA Fiction Workshop
Undergraduate Course Descriptions | Fall 2022
* (in orange) indicates courses that count towards the Pre-1700 requirement for the English major.
** (in blue) indicates courses that count towards the 1700-1900 requirement for the English major.
In Memoriam: Wide-Ranging Literary and Pop Culture Critic Paul Cantor
Rita Dove & Kiki Petrosino on Orion Recommendations for Black History Month
Orion Magazine has listed Professor Rita Dove’s Playlist for the Apocalypse & Professor Kiki Petrosino’s White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia among twelve recommended poetry books for Black History Month.
https://orionmagazine.org/2022/02/twelve-poetry-recommendations-for-black-history-month/
Playlist for the Apocalypse
Sissy Insurgencies
Visiting Writer Rabih Alameddine Interviewed on Tin House Podcast
Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Professor Rabih Alameddine, was interviewed on the Between the Covers podcast by Tin House. Listen below!
Kate Stephenson featured on the "Pedagogue" podcast
Kate Stephenson was featured on the Pedagogue podcast, talking about community engaged teaching. Episode 96, at this link: https://www.pedagoguepodcast.com/episodes.html
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News & Announcements
December 6, 2023
Publications
Events
Tomorrow
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Tucker Kuman Dissertation Presentation
- Where: Zoom
- Start time: 12:00pm
- End time: 01:00pm
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Poetry’s “Ancient Liberties”: A Mirror for Magistrates and the Resources of ComplaintABSTRACT“To be heard as complaining is not to be heard,” writes Sara Ahmed. Though Ahmed’s focus on twenty-first century institutional abuses and strategies might seem remote from early modern poetry, her observation chimes with familiar criticisms of the poetic mode termed complaint, frequently maligned for its supposed solipsism and inefficacy. While populating a vast, generically and formally diverse terrain, early modern complaints often issue from the brink (or from the beyond), as characters and lyric personae bemoan catastrophes or seek to forge their own memorials. The dissertation project In Tragedy’s Shadow: Complaint and English Early Modern Poetry seeks to recall complaint from the margins, exploring its rhetorical and philosophical underpinnings to reveal the mode’s deep entanglement with and impact on more critically exalted genres. It locates the questions, conventions, and strategies of complaint in tragedy, via a connection with exemplarity in didactic verse history; in satire and elegy, via the vernacular tradition of de casibus tragedy; and in the deep structures of sonnet sequences. This presentation, adapted from a chapter-in-progress on William Baldwin and tragedy, explores complaint’s productive potential by attending to the earliest editions of A Mirror for Magistrates (1559; 2nd edition 1563), one of the most important prosimetric texts of the English early modern period. Part of the so-called de casibus tradition, and a significant influence on dramatic tragedy, the Mirror is comprised of verse narratives describing the downfalls of bad kings and office holders. Highlighting complaints from the first and second editions of the Mirror, this presentation investigates how the work’s reliance on first-person voicing of historical figures’ downfalls and its recapitulation of moral precepts taken from older de casibus texts function to destabilize historical authority, testifying to poetry’s power to rethink authority within the present. Ultimately, the Mirror draws subtle and disturbing parallels between poets and their deviant historical subjects, foregrounding a new account of what it terms poetry’s “ancient liberties” and suggesting the recuperative power of complaint as a mode.
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Raisa Tolchinsky Poetry Reading
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
- Start time: 07:00pm
- End time: 08:00pm
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April Charlottesville Reading Series event, featuring MFA alumna Raisa Tolchinsky and CW professor Kevin Moffett.
Sunday, April 28th
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Chris Tilghman Fiction Reading
- Where: New Dominion Bookshop 404 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 03:00pm
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Emeritus Professor Chris Tilghman reads from his new novel, On the Tobacco Coast
Wednesday, May 1st
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APLP Graduation Reading
- Where: Shannon Library Rm 330
- Start time: 01:00pm
- End time: 03:00pm
Thursday, May 2nd
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APPW Graduation Reading
- Where: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 04:00pm
Friday, May 3rd
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MFA Graduation Reading
- Where: Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room
- Start time: 02:00pm
- End time: 05:00pm